President Trump just confirmed that the contractor who was caught leaking classified information about the U.S. military’s operations in Venezuela has been found and put in jail.
But, it’s not over yet.
He also hinted that more leakers may be arrested very soon.
According to President Trump, investigators are “hot on their trail.”
Watch this:
🚨 BREAKING: The leaker on President Trump's Venezuela operations has been PUT IN JAIL, and more leakers are being hunted down
FAFO.
"The leaker was found, and is in jail RIGHT NOW. The leaker on Venezuela. A very bad leaker." 🔥
"Will probably be in jail for a LONG TIME." pic.twitter.com/Ve401dx4q3
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 14, 2026
The contractor, whose name is Aurelio Perez-Lugones, leaked classified details about the military raid that captured Nicolas Maduro to the Washington Post.
Thankfully, they did not publish the story, reportedly due to concerns for our troop’s safety.
NBC News has more details on this traitor:
The contractor is Navy veteran Aurelio Perez-Lugones, who is a system administrator in Maryland and who has been charged with “unlawful retention of national defense information,” according to a criminal complaint filed Jan. 9 in the U.S. District Court for the District Court of Maryland.
Perez-Lugones, a Miami-born U.S. citizen who “possesses a Top Secret security clearance,” made his first court appearance in the case last Friday, the complaint states.
The FBI has accused Perez-Lugones of searching databases containing classified information without authorization and either printing or taking screenshots of that material, according to the complaint.
That material that Perez-Lugones allegedly began collecting in October is described in the complaint as “related to a foreign country.”
“Perez-Lugones had no need to know and was not authorized to search for, access, view, screenshot, or print any of this information,” the complaint states.
ADVERTISEMENTThe FBI had been watching Perez-Lugones as recently as last week, doing surveillance of him while he was in a SCIF, which is a secure room for handling top secret information, the complaint states.
Perez-Lugones was monitored logging in to systems. And the complaint includes a photo of him from January 6, leaving his workplace with a black bag.
Two days later, federal investigators searched Perez-Lugones’ house in Laurel, Maryland and found a document marked “SECRET” in the basement, the complaint states.
“While searching Perez-Lugones’ car, investigators located a lunch box in which a document was marked as SECRET,” the complaint states. “One of more of these documents are related to national defense.”
As part of the ongoing investigation, the home of Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson was raided earlier today.
Full scoop on that here:
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